Jehangir Ali

BBC reporter in Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh | Orphan of a tragedy | Alpinist | Coffee Addict

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

India plans to bring 'Green Boots' home 30 years after he died on Everest. His widow Konchak Yangskit told me: “When he comes home, I will ask him: 'Where were you all these years?'".
A story of love, longing and great valour from the Himalayas #Ladakh https://t.co/1P6ZanEP0u

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

@vineetkaul Or vice-versa

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

A rare encounter in the wilderness of Ladakh caught on camera. Feral dogs ruining a snow leopard’s hard-earned feast.

#urial #himalayas #nature #predatorsinthewild

Video: Choldan Gasha

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

‘General observers’ from a specific gender.

[Greater Kashmir @GreaterKashmir]

Govt appoints several JKAS officers as "General Observers" to oversee the conduct of OMR Based Written Examination for the posts of Accounts Assistant, Finance Department being conducted by the J&K, Service Selection Board on 15.11.2026.

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

Mr Vance meets Mr Vance

[JD Vance @JDVance]

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

'This is a disaster': Angry Republicans blame Trump for midterms defeat. Trump can blame Iran https://t.co/xTYhbvuh0Z

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

The moment of reckoning #AbdulElSayed #USElections

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

This is how you handle a racist. Well done Abdul👏👏👏

[Ananth Krishnan @ananthkrishnan]

The world, for the next two years, will have to deal with either a triumphant, I-told-you-so Trump, or what's looking more likely, a vengeful Trump with nothing left to lose.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Democrat Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who volunteered in Gaza, has defeated Republican Gregg Mele and won the election to the US House in New Jersey’s 12th district.

🟠 LIVE updates: https://t.co/CIbpnVc0dU

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

Democrats win control of US House. Donald Wins Duck https://t.co/qRWupo9Fdx

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted high-level talks with Oman, Iran and Saudi Arabia in Beijing on Monday.

Three senior envoys will also visit seven countries, spanning the Persian Gulf and the Horn of Africa. https://t.co/tsE3A1HhcJ

[Ashutosh Bhardwaj @ashubh]

When journalists become celebrities, their journalism often pays a price.

The same be true of activists.

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

Michael Gazzo’s performance is a profound act in Hollywood’s history which brings the character to life with his animated temperament and emotional intensity. If you haven’t watched it already, you must.

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

One of the most poignant cinematic adieus happens in The Godfather when ‘Frankie Five Angel’ Pentangeli invokes the metaphor of the Roman Empire to explain the power and the unbounded generosity of the Corleone family

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

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[Hassan wani @Hassanwanii]

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@FarooqShah_JKNC @TahirPeerzada_

[The Wire @thewire_in]

'I Am Disgusted, But Not Surprised': Arunachal Police Seek Search-Warrant Against Journalist Tongam Rina

@JournoSherry reports
https://t.co/N5zE5qY2G8

[Tenzing Lamsang @TenzingLamsang]

An artificial lake has formed upstream due to the GLOF flood. Be advised downstream areas in Assam along the Sankosh river.

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

Troubling and appalling conduct from this woman journalist who seems to have very little understanding of how river ecosystems function.

[Debdutta Chakraborty @debdutta_c]

A Qawwali by children in Lahore has taken the internet by storm & united Indians and Pakistanis.

Spoke to Zia-ul-Haq, the brain behind @surtaalacademy to understand what goes behind a viral song?

The academy has been teaching kids for free for a decade now. Read their story.

[Anuradha Bhasin @AnuradhaBhasin_]

Amid uncertainty and as JAAC intensifies agitation, crisis continues in Rawalakot and more tragedies unfold. Six-year-old child shot dead.

PaJK Protests: Child’s Killing, Shutdown and Constitutional Row https://t.co/46NClMZCJ1

[Sandeep Phogat @MrSandeepPhogat]

🚨SHOCKING - FIR against Malabar:

A man walked into a Malabar Gold showroom in Bilaspur with a simple request: exchange his old 22-carat HUID-hallmarked bracelet.

The staff ran it through their XRF machine. Once. Twice. Three times.
Every reading came back the same: 20 carat.
They even told him the hallmark didn’t exist.

He called the local jeweller who had sold him the bracelet. The jeweller walked in, confirmed the HUID, and asked them to test it again.
Same machine. Same bracelet. Same room.

This time an employee adjusted something on the machine. Suddenly the reading flipped to 916 - pure 22 carat.

The jeweller recorded everything. The Sarafa Association arrived. Police registered an FIR against the showroom manager and the machine operator. The machine and DVR were seized.

This wasn’t a small local shop. This was Malabar Gold “the chain that advertises trust, purity, and BIS standards across India”.

One bracelet. Two readings. An 8% gap in gold value. And the only thing that changed was who was watching.

If a hallmarked piece can magically lose two carats the moment a customer wants to exchange it, and magically regain them the moment someone pushes back, what exactly is the machine testing?

Customers don’t walk into Malabar expecting a calibration error that only appears when they’re selling gold.
They walk in expecting the purity printed on their receipt.

The FIR is real.
The readings are on record.
The machine was seized.

Malabar still hasn’t explained why the same piece of gold needed a “setting” before it became 22 carat again.
Until they do, this isn’t a machine glitch.
It’s a business model.